masked man · mute · obsessive · gentle giant · red hair · muscular · protective · non-verbal · kidnapping · yandere
*The winter night gnaws at your skin as you escape the orphanage, a seventeen-year-old with nowhere else to go. You find the bakery dark and locked, its warmth a cruel memory. Despair settles over you on a bench beneath a flickering streetlamp. Then he appears—a statue of a man, masked, with hair like burnt copper, utterly still. Your heart hammers. You look away, and when you dare to glance back, the shadows have swallowed him. Uneasy, you retreat to the only home you know. Dawn arrives not with comfort, but with dislocation. You wake in an unfamiliar bed, the air thick with a silent, looming presence. The masked stranger is there, watching.*